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- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -11/+80"She went up to the school and gave said teacher a good old fashioned tongue lashing..."
Hot. - Waterrat, on 10/12/2007, -2/+67
My mother never tried to make me be right handed.
My third grade teacher tried to force me to be a righitie though.....I complained to my mother.
She went up to the school and gave said teacher a good old fashioned tongue lashing...
She left me alone after that...My brother (also a Lefty) was in her class the next year...And she knew what would happen if she messed with him.
You know what they say:"Us leftys are the only people in our right minds." - n00854180t, on 10/12/2007, -4/+50Lefties FTW!
- munkey, on 10/12/2007, -14/+45Have fun dying 7 to 9 years before me!
- funkonomics, on 10/12/2007, -0/+28A lefty would've thought about it for only a second.
/ i kid - dgh1973, on 10/12/2007, -0/+20I'm a lefty and I've got two blue-eyed kids.
Suck it. - sockpuppets, on 10/12/2007, -0/+18I'm left handed but growing up in a world of right handers I adapted. I'm pretty ambidextrous now, there's few things I can do with my left that I can't do with my right. Thankfully I can use rightie mice and scissors.
- NewChar, on 10/12/2007, -4/+20Okay!
- Dotcommer, on 10/12/2007, -4/+19You stupid *****. Shut the hell up now. Your commenting privileges have been revoked.
- JimXugle, on 10/12/2007, -4/+19only 7 to 9 extra years of relative stupidity XD
- JimXugle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14I write with my left hand, but do everything else with my right... I'm using a right-handed mouse on the right side of my keyboard, I use scissors with my right hand, etc.
am I not normal? - snlildude87, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13In Vietnam, the teachers also try to make you right-handed. Although I now write with my right hand, I do everything else with my left.
- blackrock, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12I spent years in the construction industry. It's amazing how dangerous some tools are to the leftie. The basic SkilSaw is a thrill to use wrong handed. Staring over the top of a whirring blade rather than from the side can't be good for you.
- AndreGerber, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10What is allegedly wrong with left-handed individuals? No, seriously. I am stupid, sorry, but why did people force left handed to be right handed? Sorry if this seems like an odd question...
- kman004, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10I think it had to do something with ink pens.. they would smudge your shirt when writing which was considered improper especially in uniformed schools
- endersadvocate, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9its nice to know funny people have reproduced
- rofflcopterr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9I'm a leftie, and the only things I do with that hand are write and eat (with a fork).
Everything else I naturally and fluently do with my right hand, including playing bass and guitar. I always thought that felt pretty neat because all of my other left-handed friends that play instruments do so with left-handed instruments. - Rickler, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Just buy a symmetrical laser mouse and reverse the buttons... although most lefties use their right hand for the mouse anyway.
- zodo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Kill righty!
- swook, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Kill Righty!
- jackhole, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9"As it turns out, left-handers might have the advantage in certain areas like, say, piloting a jet fighter or talking and driving at the same time."
Oh if only we had more people who could do these things! - borninda818, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8They don't do it so much any more...but back in the day, It was simply considered proper to write with the right hand. My mom is left handed, and does everything with the left hand except write because she was forced to do so with the right hand in Soviet Armenia.
Stupid Soviet Teachers. - mcottier, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10Geniuses are left handed. In the category of art, both Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo were left handed. In the category of music, Ludwig van Beethoven was left handed. In the field of science and invention, you find Benjamin Franklin, Isaac Newton, and Albert Einstein. In the field of motion pictures, Charlie Chaplin.
Bobby Fisher, the modern chess genius, is left handed. So too musical geniuses Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney, and Wynton Marsalis.
The list probably goes on too! - funkonomics, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Or it could be that lefties have to multi-task more in a right handed world. thus, the better communication b/w hemispheres.
would the opposite result if 1 out of 9 people were righties instead of lefties?
I think so.
But i'm a lefty, so i rule
/sarcasm - endersadvocate, on 10/12/2007, -4/+12wow, high school classes
same kind that teach intelligent design as science?? - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9And forget about firing most automatic weapons, at least if you don't want a face full of burning hot shell casings!
- maehem, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10I could have told you that. I'm skydiving as I type this mes#*J*sjn(8....(connection lost).
/joke - maehem, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7At the time I thought the right handers might not get it if I didn't put /joke in there.
- quiltmaster, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Actually fear of left handed people predates Catholicism, the Latin word for left is sinister, and the Latin language is older then Christianity.
- RedViper1999, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6That's what I do, right hand for the mouse, scissors, throwing etc. Left for writing, eating.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7good to know, maehem. i thought you were serious!!!
- antechinus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I've been in the IT business for nearly 30 years. The best and most creative programmers and hardware design engineers I have encountered were left handed. In a hiring situation, given similar qualifications I will hire the south paw over a rightie every time.
- hambend, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Me three, a lefty playing right handed guitar. It's funny though, 'cause I would have thought having your dominant hand on the fretboard would be better anyway. There's a whole wealth of things you can do on the fretboard, but the pick hand just goes up and down, up and down...
The article rings true for me, too. I often work with a video playing on my second monitor, otherwise I get bored. - sandeskimo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7In the M.East I was required to use my right hand as the left, and this is no joke, was customarily used for wiping your tail. Fewer trees, less paper. Obviously that isn't the case now, but the tradition lives on.
- Feedback, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I was born a lefty and i think always had a hard time in school because of it, scissors never work, three ring binders hurt, and any kind of marker is a joke if you right with your hand on the other side. Its funny because now I work at a large cyber cafe and pretty much play video games for a living, and every singe one of my co-workers, even former co-workers are left handed. Hey lefties, ever feel like everyone around you is just a tad slower than you? or is that just a sign that im cocky.
- RedViper1999, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Me too, it's weird that I use my left for only those 2 things. My little brother though is pretty much left handed for everything. Its nice in a way, I can take advantage of the lefty sentiment yet it bothers me not all to use all the right handed stuff.
- thealliedhacker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5In Japan, lefties are prefered, as Japanese is traditionally written top-bottom, then right-left. Some schools try to teach children to be left-handed.
- thecompkid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Being a lefty is great because it's almost equivalent to being ambidextrous. I throw, write, and golf with my left hand, but I use righty scissors and mouses. The best thing is being able to use a mouse and write at the same time.
- david76, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5chicken101, I really love how you cite all of your sources. No actual link to Wikipedia, no full citation for your Psychology text. I don't doubt that people make such ridiculous claims regarding the origin of leff-handedness, but full citations could be nice.
That said, we (lefties) are the devil's spawn. - dgh1973, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4When you are part of such an overwhemling minority (there are only what, 10% of us in the whole world?) it tends to happen naturally, everyone just assumes everyone else is right handed so you see most things designed around right handed people - doors, tools, guns, etc.
- david76, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Moreover, he's just regurgitating crap out of his high school textbook. Not that I'd expect anyone on here to have done their own research, but to be in HS and reference your textbook is pretty pathetic.
- dgh1973, on 10/12/2007, -8/+12You seem to support a claim that states that all left handed people are the products of either brain damage or traumatic births.
You attempt to support this claim (or at least try to convince everyone that you really aren't stupid) by telling everyone that you are in an "advanced placement psychology class" as if that somehow validates you.
Psychology is for people that aren't smart enough to get into medical school, and stupid enough to think that the complexities of the mind and personality can somehow be dissected and digested into bite sized, predictable chunks by a science that is barely a hundred years old. Using it as some kind of validation to your points or level of intelligence is not only counterproductive, but shows a deep level insecurity on your part.
Now, tell me about your mother... - aphexmandelbrot, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5We're a little more prone to dying in a car crash (at least in America - the tendency is to swerve to the left... oncoming traffic, it's guessed) - but aside from that... yeah, we're the would-prefer-special-scissors minority of thinkers... but part of the left handed esteem rests in the stereotype. We've got dumb ones just like right handed people.
What I'm wondering is:
Where the hell is my left-handed (not left/right hand) ergonomic laser mouse? - david76, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5@chicken101
Are you sure you're not left-handed? - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I grew up as a lefty, but like most left handed people in a right handed world quickly became almost ambidextrous. I say 'almost' because the vast majority of people claimining to be ambidextrous are very far from it. I have a slight favor for my left hand, not enough to make me say move the mouse from one side to another for example. It may take me a week to realize someone moved it to the right instead of my preferred left. I'm so much better using both hands at he same time for different tasks though. It surprises people at first. My girlfriend is fascinated watching me shaving and replying to email on my blackberry first thing the morning.
In my younger years I was able to use two keyboards simultaneously, writing different programs on different machines, sadly I find that hard now.
I also tend to use whichever hand is closest to the job.
Lefties make out its hard work dealing with right handed stuff, but the secret is that its not hard, we just like to make righties feel guilty once in a while. - donveto, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Its an anti lefty conspiracy, I want my lefty laser mouse also.
- wally40, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6Well the reason dates way back that people thought that left handers were the devil or something. Roman Catholic nuns would slap the hands of kids that attempted to use there left hand.
Basically its that whole thing of people were afraid of what was different. - quiltmaster, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3What he is saying implies that right handedness is the default. It also implies that the little genetic changes that make the difference between left handed people and right handed people are "abnormalities". That is stupid.
- greatblackowl, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Hmmm... that's weird, then. I guess if chicken is right, traumatic birth follows an autosomal recessive inheritance pattern, just like lefthandedness.
So traumatic births skip generations?
If two of your grandparents had traumatic briths, there is a chance you will, too? - dasunst3r, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Logitech makes one -- the MX610. I have the right-handed version of it, but I am well aware they make a left-handed version of it.
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